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    Le etnografie del lavoro e il lavoro dell’etnografia

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    As an introduction to this special issue, Ethnographies of work and the work of ethnography, which collects articles based on the authors’ participant observations in workplaces, this essay aims to provide a general picture of the current transformations of global value chains and labour processes, in turn affecting labour conditions and worker organizations. The article reflects on the specific contribution of ethnography and its coterminous forms of inquiry, such as Workers’ Inquiry, engaged journalism and literature, to our understanding of changing labour processes. By focussing on the advantages and disadvantages of ethnographic research in workplaces, this introduction summarizes the different contributions, highlighting the continuities and innovations in the debate across sociology of work and labour studies today

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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